NYT
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NYT Anonymity Project Update
So I have been using Yahoo! Pipes, Google Reader, and Twitter to find and collect "anonymity because clauses"– the reasons why reporters at the New York Times have given a source anonymity– for about a month and a half now, and I’m pretty pleased with the results. I’ve got 66 separate reasons why a person…
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NYT Anonymity + Twitter
So I have been using Twitter to stream my NYT "because clauses". It’s manual, but it’s working for me.
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NYT Anonymity Feed
Last year I started the NYT Anonymity Project, where I used Yahoo My Web 2.0 to tag and copy/ paste "because clauses"– the printed reasons why article sources were granted anonymity. The system was flawed because it wasn’t automated– I had to do run a search for the word(s), click to the story, and copy/paste…
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Remembering the Sarajevan Cellist
So the other day someone wrote to me through my John F. Burns website and requested “the 1992 article on vedran smailovic – the cellist of Sarajevo”. Back in the olden days, before Times Select, before all you needed was a home delivery subscription to the Times to have complete access to their archive going…
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Call the Pulitzer Committee, Best News Photograph is Here
iraq-sniper-1, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Here’s an amazing set of photos from the New York Times of a soldier hit by a damn sniper. The reporter was C.J. Chivers, one of their best. He usually covers Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe. His reporting of the Breslan massacre was insanely close and personal and…